15 Word Illusions →
(via bebelestrange)These are fun, but the commentary is silly. I don’t believe that “the brain is capable of processing the word “of”. I counted six f’s right away by not reading the words but rather looking at the letters. That doesn’t make me a genius.
Hahahah, I just looked at the pictures when I read it, so I missed the “NEWS FLASH: BRAIN CANNOT PROCESS ‘OF’” line. The real answer, as you no doubt know from linguistics, is that “of” is [əv] phonetically and most people only count the /f/s they hear. (Which in psycholinguistics suggests a triangular lexicon whereby spelling is decoded into sounds before being processed into meaning wooohooooo!)
